Member password disclosure LinkedIn.

Hollister : CA : USA | Jun 07, 2012 at 4:48 PM PDT

By Hua Chi Thanh

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There are millions of user accounts of the social networkLinkedIn exposed passwords after a security attack, and claimed to have locked the affected accounts to ensure safety for users.

LinkedIn representatives have provided ways to overcome as well as restore the user accounts are affected by security attacks.

These accounts will be affected temporarily blocked LinkedIn. After that, users will receive an email from LinkedIn specific instructions foreach step password recovery.

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Hua Chi Thanh is based in Vũng Tàu, Đông Nam Bộ, Vietnam, and is a Reporter for Allvoices.

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